Monthly Archives: December 2017

On Dec. 1, 2016, “extremist blogger” James Simpson was the keynote speaker at the Oakland County Business Roundtable at the Auburn Hills Marriott Pontiac at Centerpoint, where he fueled Islamophobia by railing against immigrants. Here Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, responds to Simpson’s claims. Simpson said: “The Council on American-Islamic Relations is a Muslim Brotherhood front.…

December 6, 2017 Dear Community Members: On December 4, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay of two lower court injunctions which had halted much of Muslim Ban 3.0 from taking effect. This means, that as of Monday, nothing is stopping the Trump Administration from fully implementing every provision…

A Detroit EMS supervisor fired earlier this year after posting racially offensive messages on his Facebook page won his job back, despite opposition from the fire department, and returned to work this week. Now, Lt. Tim Goodman, a 13-year veteran, plans to apologize for his actions as ordered by an arbitrator in the case. The move…

A Detroit Fire Department EMS captain who was suspended for posting racist posts on social media is back on the job tonight. The fire commissioner says he wanted the man gone for good, but he was still given a second chance.

It is time for Donald Trump supporters who are not racists disavow his repeated appeals to our worst inclinations for his small-minded political purposes. Updated By Dawud Walid | Tue 5 Dec 2017 8:47 EST President Trump’s recent retweet of a series of anti-Muslim propaganda videos by a white nationalist leader in the United Kingdom is emblematic of an administration…

(WJBK) – The U.S. Supreme Court says it will allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban to take effect. If you don’t have a Visa stamped on your passport by the time the ban goes into effect, it will be almost impossible for someone from one of the proposed countries to enter the U.S. As a Muslim and attorney for CAIR, The Council…

(FARMINGTON HILLS, MI, 12/4/17) – The Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, is deeply concerned over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow President Trump’s “Muslim Ban” to be implemented until the court makes a final decision about the executive action’s constitutionality. In an order…